Nicosia, August 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Kyriacos Kyriacou Negotiations for a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus problem resume on Tuesday after the summer break, with the property issue high on the agenda. Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Monday that the property issue and in particular the criteria pertaining to it will […]

Sarajevo, August 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Mladen Dragojlovic Several years ago, BiH chambers of economy, on entities and state level, initiated a campaign “Buy BiH products” in order to encourage citizens to help local production instead of buying imported goods and supporting foreign companies. The campaign wasn’t a great success and citizens, […]

Belgrade, August 31, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Milos Mitrovic Serbia is an important and sincere partner of China in the Central and Eastern Europe, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the meeting with his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in Beijing today. Nikolic invited Xi to visit Serbia, check Chinese investments in Serbia and […]

Tirana, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency For the first time in Albania, private banks have removed nonperforming loans from their statements. Sources from the Bank of Albania said today that that 11 billion ALL worth of nonperforming loans have been removed from their financial statements. This operation was dictated by a new regulation approved […]

Pristina, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Elton Tota The Group for Legal and Political Studies says that the Association Agreement affects the essence of structural importance of Kosovo and its multi ethnic values. According to GLPS, Republic of Kosovo has been built on principles of a constitutional democracy, thus reflecting a model entirely […]

In an exclusive interview for IBNA, analyst and law professor, Vilhard Shala talks about the process of dialogue in the normalization of relations between Pristina and Belgrade, the impact of the Special Tribunal in the political arena in Kosovo, challenges of Kosovo in the path toward NATO and EU integration and the process of international […]

Skopje, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Naser Pajaziti Large numbers of refugees from Middle East continues to swarm FYROM. According to the Ministry of Interior, last week, over 2 thousand refugees have traveled to Serbia through FYROM. But, according to a detailed report of the Ministry of Interior, since the start of 2015 […]

Tirana, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency Albanian PM, Edi Rama has launched a public appeal to the European Union to leave the internal calculations of neighboring countries aside and turn its eyes on the countries that aspire integration. Europe must save the Mediterranean and not allow its waters to turn into a theater of […]

Tirana, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency Within the opposition political camp in Albania, critical voices against the current leader of the party have become more serious, after one of the most imminent founders of the Democratic Party launched strong accusations about this way of leading the party and the strategy that is being followed. […]

Pristina, 31 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency By Elton Tota The Brussels Agreement for the Association of Serb Communes and the Agreement for the Border Demarcation with Montenegro has united opposition in Kosovo even more. Three opposition parties, Self Determination, AAK and Incentive, say that the governing coalition between PDK and LDK has caused great […]